The theme at preschool this month is Oviparous animals.
You'll get an A+ for the day if you know what the word "oviparous" means.
Okay. It's totally not fair that you just looked that up on the Internets.
F+ to you for cheating. You only got the "plus" because I like you.
Anyways, now you know that it means egg laying animals.
Birds and fish lay eggs, but so do snakes and lizards. So, we packed up the preschool kiddies and visited the reptile zoo.
The kids had a great time checking out the snakes, lizards, crocs and turtles who called the zoo home. The zoo also had some frogs and giant spiders as well. I know they're not reptiles, but they seemed to go with the overall theme of the zoo - things that make you say "Ew".
Katie was unsure at first, but quickly warmed up to the inhabitants.
It didn't take much really. With the blink of a yellow beady eye or the twitch of a scaly foot, this is what you would hear....
"Awwwww. Look at him swimming in the water.
How cute is that?"
She ssssss-ed at the snakes.....
....and communed with the chameleons.
Oh yeah, Mikey was there too.
He was more into the ceiling fans than the snakes.
At the end of the visit, they brought out a giant yellow snake
for a touch and feel session.
Katie was all over that. She wouldn't leave the thing alone.
She gave it a few pats. Then she gave it a couple of hugs.
And she was the only child to try to give the snake a kiss.
Here's what we took away from our visit:
Katie learned that you do not kiss snakes because they slither around in their own poop.
Mikey learned that reptiles don't move around very much and are quite boring.
I learned two things.
My daughter is a master of parseltongue and that reptile zoos smell really, REALLY bad.
It was a good trip.
